Changes Made 1 - Your Blog/Website (overall and about/Introduction Page)
- Seri Park
- May 5, 2020
- 4 min read
My Blog Post url
Main Page
About My Blog
About Me
Instruction
Create a new website that is a "blog" or "portfolio" 1) Design your theme Choose a website template that you like. Play around with the features: Title, background design, font color, size, etc. Think of a suitable title for your portfolio and rename if after this title. 2) Make an About / Introduction section on your homepage that describes who you are and what your lob is all about. 3) Insert a comment box for all pages of your blog
Scoring Criteria
1) Introduction / About Page (content, language) (4) 2) All assignments and reflections are posted and the website is easy to navigate (2) 3) Visuals, color scheme, font, layout, and creativity (4)
Feedbacks from classmate, professor
* Feedback from professor
* Feedback from a classmate
According to the feedback from the professor and my classmate, there were some parts that need extra information / should be edited such as...
1) Unnecessary blog space should be omitted (such as video channel, which I am not going to use)
2) The meaning of the title of my blog(Holic blog) is unclear
Therefore, I especially focused on these parts and tried to make five changes in my blog accordingly. Here are five changes I made for the overall blog layout and introduction/about page.
Five changes I made
1. Deleted the unnecessary blog section 'Video Channel'
At the bottom of my blog, there was a 'Video channel' section (as you can see in the red square box). However, since I have no plans to upload videos in my blog, and most of my communication tools are going to be plain text and photos only, I deleted this page.
Also, I simplified the upper menu of my blog. Originally, there were 'Home / Blog / Subscribe / Video Player / Contact' sections but I simplified into 'Home / Blog / Contact' only.
2. Changed the order / name of the category for easier navigation
For easier navigation, I changed the order / name of the category.
Before, the menu for my blogs was listed as following order:
All Posts / Introduction / Technology Enhanced Language Teach / More ▼
E..
F..
M..
H..
C..
Records of my coursework/assignment were listed in the third part of the menu and the rest were hidden under the category 'More'. In addition, the rest of the words were omitted, which was quite hard to figure out what each alphabet stands for.
Therefore, I changed the order of my category as follows:
All Posts / Introduction / Changes Made / More ▼
Course Work (Tech enhanced L-teach)
Education Issues
Food Review
Music
Health
I set the 'Changes Made' category instead of 'Technology Enhanced Language Tech' category since right now the Professor is going to evaluate my <Changes made> session and I wanted a nicer layout for my blog. Also, I changed the name of the menu 'Technology Enhanced Language Tech' to 'Tech enhanced L-teach'. There were limitations of words, and I thought the shortened version was much easier to get.
3. Add explanations of why my blog is named 'Holic Blog' (in the first page of the blog & introduction page)
As the professor pointed out that there were not enough explanations about why my blog is called <Holic Blog>, I tried to add explanations in the first page in my blog as the photo below shows.
Not only on the first page of my blog, but I also updated my 'introduction page' explaining why my blog is named <Holic Blog>.
4. Changed & Added the picture of <About Me Page> that better describes me.
For the introduction page (About me), I changed the photo of myself into a word cloud that I made since I thought it better describes who I am. Since I posted a photo of myself on the first page of my blog, the viewers will already know my face so I decided to change the photo that expresses my inner self.
In addition, I added more photos on the introduction page for a better explanation.
Especially, I added a photo of my school campus for those who have never been to Sookmyung Women's University, and I uploaded another photo of ENTJ which is one kind of personal trait according to the MBTI test (16 personalities test). I did not realize that there might be some people who have never heard about this test before, and don't know what ENTJ means back then, so I added more information about ENTJ under the photo.
5. Categorized<About my blog> Page into three sections and updated the content for a visitors-friendly blog.
Before, my introduction page only mentioned what content my blog is going to deal with. However, I wanted my blog to be a more blogger-friendly space for all the people who will visit my blog, so I added a 'Comments to y'all' section.
Since I wanted to reach out to more people and interact with them actively, I made comments such as 'please feel free to comment on my blog.'
Also, I thought it would be great if I let my visitors know the update frequency (how often will I post in my blog), so I mentioned it in my post as well.
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